Rec. Swim is finished…
Swimmers take your mark: The Washington University swim team is already off to a spectacular start as the winter season gets under way. The Bears opened their season against Division I cross-town rival Saint Louis University with a dramatic 153-140 win.
Pocket Rockets: Straight beats Flush, Wolff beats Dems
Wolff, a St. Louis native, recently won the University Democrats’ poker tournament, adding another notch in his gambling belt. Wolff came off his first University tournament with a $157.50 victory. “It’s especially nice to have a Republican come in and win a Democrat’s tournament.”
Police Beat
Thursday, November 11 1:00 p.m. LARCENY-THEFT, SOUTH BROOKINGS – Person(s) unknown stole an Olympus Stylus 300 digital silver camera with black carrying case from the above location. Disposition: Under investigation. 5:12 p.m. MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT, PARKING LOT #59 – Student reported his car had been stolen from Wohl Garage.
Freshmen highlight Chechnya crisis
In response to continued warfare between the Russian military and Chechen militants fighting for independence, freshmen in Washington University’s International Leadership Program sponsored Chechnya Awareness Week this week to make students more conscious of the situation.
Point Out Hunger pointed out as Bon App‚tit profit sinkhole
This year’s Point Out Hunger meal point drive, an annual philanthropy event sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity (SAE), has been handed a set of restrictions ensuring that a new 10,000 meal point limit is not surpassed. Washington University students have been donating meal points to SAE members during the weeklong event.
New spring classes unique
Picking new classes for spring semester can be a time-consuming and engrossing effort, with Washington University students scrambling toward fulfilling prerequisites necessary for graduation.
Rub a dub dub, a frat in a tub
Kappa Sigma’s Hot-Tubathon has transformed the Swamp into a scene of charitable hot-tubing. Until 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington University students can buy thirty minutes in the 50-person hot tub with either five dollars or three canned food items. All proceeds will benefit the St. Louis Foodbank.
Burglaries spread off campus
A recent spate of burglaries has plagued students living off campus in University City and St. Louis apartments, Washington University Police announced Wednesday. Students have reported missing electronic devices, especially laptops-and in one instance, a student reported being at home and seeing a thief walk out his door with stolen goods.
WUPD Chief Don Strom said that, while in some cases thieves have forcibly entered residences, many students who reported burglaries said they had left apartment doors or windows unlocked.
“Certainly one of the things we see occur on too regular a basis is where people had their windows unlocked or their doors unlocked and the student has either left or is actually still in the house,” said Strom.
We’ve got spirit, yes we do!
Last Saturday 107,501 people came together at the University of Michigan to watch the Wolverines play Northwestern in a gridiron battle. On that same day at Francis Field, a crowd numbering barely four digits watched Washington University football take on the powerhouse that is Greenville College.
Proposals to cut AS funding misguided
The recent staff editorial endorsing a cut in the funding for the Assembly Series is sorely misguided and calls into question the editorial board’s values and those of the student body, or at least the Student Union Treasury, of Washington University. The Assembly Series is one of our most important institutions.